Move datastore using powercli to a folder

[Martijn Moret]

Hi all,

Here is the situation:
1 VCenter
Multiple Datacenters
Multiple clusters in each DC
Folders for all customers.

I would like to automate the placement of a customer datastore in it's own folder.
However, we use that folder name on each level (VM, DataStore, Network) and sometimes a customer uses multiple clusters, so the Foldername can appear sometimes 8 or 10 times.
I looked at the great functions: Get-FolderPath and GetFolderByPath, but i cannot get it to work.

Error I receive:
Move-Datastore : 18-1-2021 17:15:50 Move-Datastore The specified parameter 'Destination' expects a single value, but your name criteria 'CUST0001' corresponds to multip
le values.

Info:
Get-Folder -Name CUST0001

Name Type
---- ----
CUST0001 Network
CUST0001 Network
CUST0001 Datastore
CUST0001 Datastore
CUST0001 VM
CUST0001 VM

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TIA - Martijn

[LucD]

You should be able to find the folder by using Get-FolderByPath.
How did you call the function?
What is not working?

[Martijn Moret]

Thanks for your reply.
If i use it on the DC it returns:

Get-FolderByPath -Path "DC001"

Name Type
---- ----
vm VM

If I go deeper, it returns only the VM path:

Get-FolderByPath -Path "DC001/CUST0001"

Name Type
---- ----
CUST0001 VM

If I use the get-folder and pipe, it returns:

get-folder -Type Datastore -Name CUST0001 | Get-FolderPath

Name Path Type
---- ---- ----
CUST0001 DC001\datastore\CUST0001 yellow
CUST0001 DC002\datastore\CUST0001 yellow

[LucD]

That is exactly what the function is supposed to do.
If you look at the code you'll notice it descends the 'vm' path, or in other words the VM & Templates folder.

What would you like it to return?

[Martijn Moret]

Ok, thanks.

My goal is to move a datastore into the datastore folder for this customer using powercli (hence the title of my topic).

Thanks!

[LucD]

If you want to go  down the datastore path, you can just change 'vm' to 'datastore'.
Like this

                    if ((Get-Inventory -Location $root -NoRecursion | select -ExpandProperty Name) -contains "datastore") {
                        $root = Get-Inventory -Name "datastore" -Location $root -Server $vc -NoRecursion
                    }

[Martijn Moret]

Again, thanks for your quick replies, but I need some more help I think.
I changed the code of the function, but how do I get the unique folder to move the datastore in?

Thanks

[LucD]

The function should return the Folder object, which can capture in variable.
Then use that variable on the parameter for your cmdlet.

[Martijn Moret]

Thanks for your pateince and quick replies!

The following code works like a charm. 

$tds = Get-FolderByPath -Path dc001/CUST001
Move-Datastore -Datastore CUST0001_vol01 -Destination $tds

For others, the function was also changed to return datastore folders:
Around line 38.

if((Get-Inventory -Location $root -NoRecursion | Select -ExpandProperty Name) -contains "datastore"){
$root = Get-Inventory -Name "datastore" -Location $root -Server $vc -NoRecursion